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“D Company” is a
set of three different tale of thriller stories written and directed by three directors..
While, movie had its moments, prepare to be patient; because, if you don’t have
enough patience, there are all the possibilities of becoming a violent patient
in theatre halls.

The first story,
“Oru Bolivian Diary 1995” is set in the backdrops of naxalites or the so
– called people by mainstream media. Chinnan (Asif Ali) was a tribal youth
during the above mentioned time – 1995. As he befriended with Chowkidar
(Samuthirakani), a noted convict in the list of police forces, Police started
to haunt him. Chinnan, however decided not to let the force to catch Chowkidar.
And what happened in those times has been digged out by a journalist (Ananya)
of present time.

“Gangs of
Vadakkumnathan” – this one could be considered as an investigation thriller
movie where a police officer, Akbar (Anoop Menon) was assigned the duty to find
out the culprits behind the heinous act of murdering a big brewery
industrialist and taking away a sum of INR 750 Cr from the man. He then
journeys to Thrissur, since the ones he needed was there. He met and had
discussions with Varal Jaison (Jayasurya), Shaji (Deepak Parambol) and a big
gold merchant. Then there follows some incidents through which we are shown the
activities unknown to the public, like that of whitening the black money and
the kind matters.

“Day of
Judgment” could also be considered as an investigation thriller movie where
the game of mind too plays. Dr. Sunil (Fahadh Fassil) is yet to recover from
the sudden and accidental death of his wife Jeena (Bhama). He however ran into
trouble as the cops found out a dead body at one of his villas. As he undergoes
an extremely stressful and traumatic state of time at police station is what
the movie has depicted. However, the murder mystery too is resolved in the
process.

In terms of
script and execution, each movie differed from the other two. What they had in
common was the curiosity of one of the characters to resolve some unknown
truths. While in “Oru Bolivian Diary 1995”, a young journalist mysteriously
followed a police officer to trace out what happened for a tribal youth, it is
respectively Anoop Menon and Thanusree Dutt who comes after others to resolve
murder mysteries. None of them were successful in catching everything in
detail. In the first segment, we are shown the life circle of a tribal youth
after which he met a Naxalite leader. But, in fact what is the role of that
journalist in this process is yet to be found. As we are unaware of any particular
relationship between her and that of either the tribal youth or the naxalite
leader, the kind of enthusiasm and emotions which she exhibits remain confused.
There were volleys of mistakes in the movie, right from the use of language.
While at some times, we see Chinnan speaking with a tribal dialect, there were
many instances where we could see him speaking normal language.

The second
segment “Gangs of Vadakkumnathan” was in fact the only movie which has shown
justice to the taglines – an action packed movie. Like all other Anoop Menon
scripted movies, this one too has had its share of sex, but was more of a
violent one. Lot of blood shedding scenes was in the movie. And we at times
wonder if this is the actual thing which is happening in our own Thrissur. But,
what the movie lacked is a definite mission which the central character
suffered throughout. While at times, we see him as a genuine police officer,
there were many times when he was found suspiciously involved in many other
duties. As far as the name of the people included, we are having a doubt – how
the Malayalam film script writers become this much confident in depicting real
life characters on papers. The audience doesn’t need to think twice to know
whom the characters represent on the screen.

The case with
“Day of Judgment” however is a bit sad thing. Even having the best story out of
the three, movie still lacks to create the kind of appetite in us. By bringing
and mixing the past and present frames each other frequently, movie confuses us
a lot. Also it was disheartening in seeing the director using this kind of time
in narrating a single story. Particularly that police station instance was a
pure piece of unnecessary detailed narration of matter. But, amidst all these
problems, the genuine idea which they brought is very good. The variation in
the mood of characters were all convincing and this segment could have been
better a lot more given the scope which it had.

COMPLETE CRITIC REVIEW

Performance
Analysis

“Oru
Bolivian Diary 1995” had Asif Ali, Samuthirakani, Ananya and Aadukalam Naren
doing pivotal roles. Nobody has shown any serious act. But, Naren’s performance
was refreshing as his is a relatively new face in Malayalam.

“Gangs of
Vadakkumnathan” had Anoop Menon, Jayasurya, Unni Mukundan and Deepak Parambol
doing important roles. While Anoop Menon received the most screen space, it was
Jayasurya who captured the attention with more punchy dialogues. Deepak
Parambol too did a decent job. bbut Unni seems to be trying to act like Salman
Khan in Bollywood movies-Almost single expression throughout the movie.

Starring Fahadh
Fassil, Bhama and Thanusree Dutt, “Day of Judgment” was excellent in terms of
screen acting by them. Fahadh did a commendable job by portraying a character
of various hues. Bhama as the frightened wife of Fahadh and Thanusree’s as the
brilliant cop did their jobs convincingly.

Technical
Analysis

“Day of Judgment”
once again wins the race here. By giving various tints of colors as the mood of
the movie changes, the cinematography section of this movie did a pleasing job;
while the other two ones too did reasonably good jobs.

Music

Ratheesh Vega’s music from “Oru Bolivian Diary
1995” though were good failed to ignite fire in our mind. The BGM of Rahul Raj
in “Day of Judgment” too was a nice experience.

Script

Three different
stories, belonging to three different types. There was a typical Anoop Menon
style to “Gangs of Vadakkumnathan”, Padmakumar’s work in “Oru Bolivian Diary
1995” was slow as a snail. It lacked the required charm. Also both of their
scripts remained lot of questions in our minds.

Vinod Vijayan’s
story was the pick out from the rest, though he didn’t utilize it maximum. Even
after having an endearing storyline, he kept elongating the duties further.

Direction

Respectively done
by Padmakumar, Diphan and Vinod Vijayan, those movies suited for different
tastes. While Padmakumar yet again disappointed with slow narration, Diphan
offered some entertaining moments though his segment. The lack of care given to
the details was the villain here.

If the lack of
care given to the details was the villain in the earlier one, it was the over
detailing which became the most destructing element in Vinod Vijayan’s
direction.